January/February 2009
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- Player on the Black Keys
In an extract from a memoir in progress, musician Tony MacMahon remembers moments of inspiration, captivation – and terror. Photos: Lucy Clarke
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- A Lament for Arthur O'Leary
The composer who has been dubbed the ‘father’ of the renaissance in English classical music came from Tralee. In a review of a new book on Arthur O’Leary (1834–1919), Raymond Deane argues that a new assessment of Irish classical music history is an urgent necessity.
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- Open House
'Access' is now a guiding principle across music and the arts, but what does it mean in practice?
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- Hearing Voices
Kevin Stevens meets the innovative saxophonist David Murray
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- Greim Láimhe don Pháirtnéar is Gaire Dúinn
How country music in America binds Ireland North and South
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- The Thing Itself
How do we recognise the real thing in traditional music?
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- When is a Symphony not a Symphony?
On the attractions of the cinematic canon
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- My Love is in America
On learning traditional Irish music from outside Ireland
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- Ideas in Flux
No discussion of Lithuanian composers can avoid the political dimension – but no so in Ireland
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- Notes
Unlocking the Archive / Session with the Pipers /Music Recording / Casadh Arís / Temple Bar Trad / Música Nueva de Mexico / Outof Time / New Books on Music in Ireland / Winteriser / Happy to Meet, Sorry toPart / Dublin Philharmonic in USA / New Chair at ITMA / Audrey Corbett Honoured/ Le Chéile / SEM Group for Irish Music / RTÉ lyric fm Commissions / 12 Points!/ Opera at the Cinema / Ergodos Seeks Volunteers / Write for JMI
- CD REVIEWS
Trihornophone / Charlie Lennon / Margaret Burke Sheridan / Organics / Balfe / Neill Lyons
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- LIVE REVIEWS
Keith Jarrett / Dublin Electronic Arts Festival / Stephen Garner's Hallelujah / For You, Only You / Anail Dé / At First Light / Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival / Crash Ensemble